I just thought of another one Mickey Mouse Club. How could we forget the entire generation of talent (?) that came out of that?
I was out of the country while the revamped Club was on the air so I don’t know how good it was, but with all those “divas to be” in one place at one time, it had to be interesting.
They remade the Love Boat and Fantasy Island I understand, both of which died quickly.
And I think back in the late 80s during the writer’s strike that they remade a lot of old shows using old scripts, mostly. Mission Impossible was one, but then I think maybe they updated that slightly and kept the same main actor.
Gene Barry starred in Burke’s Law in 1963, and then again in 1994.
Wasn’t there a short lived remake of Charlie’s Angels? I don’t know if it ever actually got on the air, but I remember reading that a then unknown Halle Berry was turned down for the show when she audited for it.
I’ve always thought of **The Flintstones ** as a remake of The Honeymooners. But that may be pushing the boundaries of the OP.
But it isn’t a remake, it’s a continuation. Having different actors play the character is part of the premise of the show.
The new version of Fantasy Island was really good, because they played Mr Roarke (Malcolm McDowell) as really dark and ambiguously sinister. I liked it, shame it was cancelled.
There was an updated Leave it to Beaver with all of the surviving original family returning. Beaver was a divorced father IIRC.
The original “Life of Riley” series starred Jackie Gleason (late '40’s-early '50’s); when Gleason began his variety show, the show was remade with William Bendix in the title role.
I thought they just substituted in Bendix when Gleason dropped out rather than actually remaking it.
Bendix did the radio version, but was unavailable for the Dumont TV show, but did do the movie (both versions were in 1949). Bendix a version of the show in 1953.
You probably missed it because it was on PAX (not a cable channel, but a family-oriented – i.e. Christian – network of independent stations). PAX has recently become “i”, the independent network, but I noticed that they are showing reruns of Ponderosa at 8:00 p.m. every Sunday.
The show was pretty boring and bland. It was similar to other Pax-produced shows like the Billy Ray Cyrus vehicle “Doc” and “Sue Thomas, F.B.I.” More like “Little House on the Praire” than “Deadwood”, especially since the Cartwright boys were so young. My main reason for watching was that Ben Cartwright was played by Daniel Hugh Kelly.
Someone said Three’s Company and All in the Family were remakes of British shows.
Is that true?
-FrL-
Three’s Company = Man About the the House
All in the Family = Till Death Us Do Part
There was a sequel of sorts to the Brady Bunch, called “The Bradys”. Failed miserably, as I recall. There was also an updated “Get Smart”, with Don Adams as an elderly Maxwell Smart and Andy Dick as his son. And we will not speak of “What’s Happening Now!”. Oh, and there was also “AfterMASH”, but again, that was a continuation.